This is the freaking awesome story of how their babies, Yael and Eytan, came to be. It’s a tale of friendship (would you give your best friends your eggs?), altruism (imagine being pregnant with twins in August — now imagine being pregnant with someone else’s twins in August) and the myriad ways dreams come true. Grab a hankie and press play:

Highlights: At 0:20 Orrin explains that the hardest thing about coming out, for him, was the idea that gay men can’t be parents. At 1:23 Bethany (their best friend and egg donor) explains there’s more to being a parent than genetics. At 1:45 Niki (the gestational surrogate) explains she’s not giving the babies up, she’s giving them back – to their dads. We meet the babies at 2:55 and then Mitchell makes us cry.